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What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system
I woulds not exactly say we mastersed it
13 Mar 24
How Jane Austen changed fiction, especially how interiority is rendered
01 Dec 23
Yeah, I was pretty surprised when I heard the two-syllable pronounciation of “cocaine” (on Metalocalypse, which is how I tries to studies English).
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No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language
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29 Jan 11
The house in Milverton, Somerset, was once home to Thomas Cranmer, Arch Deacon of Taunton in the 16th Century.